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This past weekend we traveled to Kuwait City for a whirlwind tour. Because I am cautious by nature, I checked the Travel Canada website for travel notifications before we left. Gotta stop doing that. The website did give advice on local customs that I happened to glance at, however. More on that later.

... a particularly long time. The infamous and fantastic Amy Chua detailed three factors behind successfully raised children in her latest book, satirised rather well here. I quickly identified with it when I read this New York Post article. It summarises her book as basically 2 lists, one containing 8 migrant groups (in the USA) and one containing 3 common factors amongst people of these groups. Salon and many other publications ...

In Kuwait, alcohol is banned. Another thing we Australians do routinely is consider ourselves as having a better, more fun culture than theirs. Would Kuwaitis disagree? I should ask them. What I can say though is I'm glad I've stopped drinking every weekend since coming here. If I were to make it, I believe this would increase the validity ...

... good chat about GIS issues at this organisation and came up with a couple of ideas to fix things. The main thing was experiencing a sense of community and the chance to chat casually with people who had the same background and passion. It was nice to be able to talk about things to do with GIS without a fear of others no understanding, we could all be spontaneous.

Honestly though, getting there was a massive mission. The GPS on my phone doesn't work as I don't have a data connection, so I had to plan the trip in the apartment where there's wifi, then follow the route:

http://goo.gl/maps/7XOCp

Even then I got confused though as, well, I'm new to the place and I was travelling on all these ...